[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s16.9 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.9 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.9 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s16.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s16.9) Such is the myth that is presented in the records. But no attempt is made to give the lineal descent from Sala to the historical members of the family. He is, doubtless, nothing but an eponymous hero, whose existence was invented, when the pedigree was being manufactured, simply to explain a somewhat peculiar name. And the historical genealogy stands as shewn in the table on page 493 below. The town with which the historical authority of the Hoysalas was first connected, in the case of Vishnuvardhana, is Vêlâpura or Bêlûra,² which is the modern Bêlûr, the chief town of the Bêlûr tâluka in the Hassan District, Mysore.³ But in the time of Vishnuvardhana the seat of government was moved to Dôrasamudra,⁴ which is the modern Halêbîd, about ten miles east by north from Bêlûr. From the story about Sala and the Jain ascetic, from the statement that Vinayâditya owed his rise to power to a Jain teacher named Prabhâchandra, from the mention of Vishnuvardhana's wife, Sântadêvî, as a lay disciple of a Jain teacher named Prabhâchandra, and from the specification of his minister Gangarâja, and of Hulla, a minister of Narasimha I., as two out of three very special promoters of the Jain faith, it is plain that the Hoysalas were originally Jains by religion. But it is said that they were subsequently converted to the Vaishnava faith.⁵ And this is borne out by the assertion that Vîra-Ballâla II. acquired the sovereignty by the favour of the god Nârâyana or Vijaya-Nârâyana; and by the description of Polâlva, a minister of the same king and of Narasimha II., as an eminent leader among the Vaishnavas. - [Previous: c8.s16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s16.8) - [Next: c8.s16.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s16.10) - [Up: c8.s16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s16.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s16.9) · Pramāṇa